This Is the New Year by A Great Big World is featured in Naked, the twelfth episode of Season Four. It is sung by the New Directions.

The New Directions are excited about the coming year after creating the 'Men of McKinley Calendar'. Before the song begins, Becky hugs the calendar as Artie and Sam speak about the coming year. As the song begins, New Directions are in a studio, inspired by A Great Big World's music video of the same song. They dance and sing together as it switches to different characters singing. Brittany can be seen carrying Lord Tubbington in one shot. The scene then cuts to the New Directions entering the auditorium, running and singing the song in their own crazy way.

At the end of the song, everyone falls to the floor except Artie and Sam, who seem excited and high five each other. This is the final song of the episode.

There are two versions of this performance, one posted by Ryan Murphy in his YouTube channel and the other the one shown in the episode. While the first is full colored, the second one has grayish tone.